Audience loves a good anti-hero. With the death of Ghost in the original series, and the series not showing the funeral, a lot of bitter strings were left dangling between our teeth. While we are supposed to frown upon Ghost, TV show did what it does best at times (generally speaking): served up a villain that we loved, an anti-hero that tried to break the circle and go clean. Ghost was served to us since day one as an established, developed personality. He was who he was, and wanted more, better, cleaner. By the irony, it all led to his demise and now we see his son at the exact same point Ghost was in his youth. But Tarique has the entire Ghost's period of life, with it's challenges, from when Kanan was sent to jail to the point where he had to lead double life of a criminal and businessman - in a single episode. All the internal struggle and challenges that Ghost faced in the previous decade or two in his life, are on the Tariq's shoulders in the very first episode of the Book II. And now we're to witness Tariq having to use everything he knows about his father as a leverage against those challenges, no matter how much he despised his father. He now has to excel that very father he hated in everything he hated him for.
Verdict: Show looks promising after the first episode.
Verdict: Show looks promising after the first episode.